Science and society mutually constitute each other rather than existing separately

Evidence

These accounts show how sciences and their societies coconstitute each other in important ways: scientific projects are always part of larger social projects; “the social” permeates how sciences think about “the natural” (and vice versa). The argument here is a strategic one: let us see what we can learn by refusing these conventional contrasts. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1599

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the coconstitution thesis compactly; useful for grounding how racial knowledge is itself socially constructed and mutually productive.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing the fuller Harding/Haraway lineage behind who exactly mounts this strategic refusal of nature/society contrasts.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1599
• XREF: connects to: Operationalism in physics parallels behaviorism in social science — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 132; Scientific observation always occurs from within a specific social universe of discourse. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 584; Scientific-technological ordering is inherently political — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 618 (+2 more)